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General Computer Support / Re: Bitlocker Media is Write Protected

« on: April 27, 2016, 08:15:54 am »

18 HOURS?? Oh my gosh. I will probably get trigger happy waiting that long and press cancel. However would be worth it to get rid of the boot error message. I doubt a quick format will do the trick so 18hrs it is. When I first got the 0 days to live message and the drive was still working after a few days, I started rooting for it to keep going. After a year I felt quite proud that it had 'beaten the odds'. I really need to get out more!!!! Thanks for the advice Hero Member Boggin.

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General Computer Support / Re: Bitlocker Media is Write Protected

« on: April 24, 2016, 10:42:25 pm »

Yes the same as your link, I select the drive, right click then select Manage Bitlocker then select 'Turn Off Bitlocker' I get a msg asking if I want to turn it off. When I select OK I get 'The media is write protected' instead of 'Your drive will be decrypted' etc.
Sentinel says Performance Excellent 100%  Health 0% Failure predicted.  Power on Time 1256 days Estimated remaining time 0 days. The text says
Failure Predicted - Attribute: 5 Reallocated Sectors Count, Count of sectors moved to the spare area. Indicate problem with the disk surface or the read/write heads.
There are 1960 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these sectors were moved to the spare area.
Based on the number of remapping operations, the health of the disk was decreased in different steps.
There are 5 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
Replace hard disk immediately.  Failure Predicted - Attribute: 5 Reallocated Sectors Count, Count of sectors moved to the spare area. Indicate problem with the disk surface or the read/write heads.
There are 1960 bad sectors on the disk surface. The contents of these sectors were moved to the spare area.
Based on the number of remapping operations, the health of the disk was decreased in different steps.
There are 5 weak sectors found on the disk surface. They may be remapped any time in the later use of the disk.
Replace hard disk immediately.  5,Reallocated Sectors Count,5,2,2,Pre-Failure: Data loss predicted,0000000007A8,0,Enabled
This is exactly what the Sentinel report said 6yrs ago. Its a shame Bitlocker didn't throw the error message before it encrypted it.

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General Computer Support / Bitlocker Media is Write Protected

« on: April 24, 2016, 03:59:49 am »

I acquired a 1gb hard drive which had been replaced after failing. At the time they were pretty pricey so rather than throwing it out, I made an attempt at repairing it, although had no clue what I was doing. I made a mistake at one point which I couldn't figure out how to reverse so was surprised when it worked. I was not surprised to get a warning on boot and a message saying it was about to fail and to immediately after login. These are accurate warning %99 of the time and should never be ignored but it was a bit of fun. I have used it every day for the past 7yrs so no longer notice the alerts and never store anything I can't afford to lose. Again not knowing what I was doing, I decided to try Bitlocker and not thinking encrypted this drive which has made it 'read only'. Adjustments made in Group Policy or TPM seem to make no difference.
Check Disk tells me to repair the drive and I get 'The driver has detected that device \Device\Harddisk1\DR5 has predicted that it will fail. Immediately back up your data and replace your hard disk drive. A failure may be imminent.' Would I be correct in assuming this is preventing Bitlocker from turning off? Anything I can do? If not, can I just reformat over the top of Bitlocker?  BTW I learn by guessing what to do, then reading what I should have done in a forum. So no need to point this out... a bit like guys and road maps before GPS.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Deleted Program Files

« on: April 05, 2016, 03:29:15 am »

BTW When i got the ransom virus there were a couple of things I found that made me think the source was asian. This confirms it for me. The 2 incidence are connected and the ransom from Korea. They also used an SSL certificate from Symantic, hijacked Avira and were ignored by Spyhunter. Malwarebytes Ransomware Beta is a must as normal virus software does not see it.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Re: Deleted Program Files

« on: April 05, 2016, 02:41:39 am »

I never meant for a second Windows Repair was at fault, just the user. I cannot rave about how good it is enough. I went to safe mode ran Malwarebytes and got online virus scans from ESET, Trend, Microsoft & FSecure and none found a virus. Skimmed through my Registry looking in at risk places and found current user windows search some korean words - translated mean Gaga Baby geng etc. translation was dubious but clearly a reference to Lady Gaga. Found some other Registry Keys then found the offending file. It had put itself in the trash and is called $RE67FM9.exe. It also seemed to make a copy of my user profile but with most folders empty. Spent most of my time looking for it online but cant find it anywhere. Anyway, will put files back on and monitor it offline and see what happens. Hasn't infected my laptop which is on the network so guess that is a good sign.

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Tweaking.com Support & Help / Deleted Program Files

« on: April 04, 2016, 11:45:16 pm »

I recently got attacked by ransomware when I downloaded a picture of Casper the Ghost. It also encrypted my backup usb drive. I had a 2 week old disc image which was damaged on another drive. I eventually got this to work and repaired my system but it took a week. Most of what I did by hand is done by your Windows Repair tool which I only discovered when I finished. Commercial Reg Repairs have never fixed anything so this tool is a breathe of fresh air. However I may have overdone it with the tool as used it today then got an error relating to Group Policy, it auto booted, took ages to restart and another error about users. Then I noticed all the Program Files are deleted except microsoft. I had Malwarebytes, Bitdefender and Malwarebytes Ransomware Beta running and no virus detected. I ran adwCleaner and only a file named mntemp was found. I have done something stupid with Windows Repair or is this another virus?